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UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BULLETIN 

Vol. XIV. No. 1 

Published Monthly by the Regents of the University of Colorado. 
Entered at the Post Office, Boulder, Colorado, as second-class mail matter. 



APPRECIATION OF THE SERVICE OF 
JAMES HUTCHINS BAKER 

President of the University of Colorado 
JANUARY 1, 1892, TO JANUARY 1, 1914 




Boulder, Colorado. January, 1914 



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UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BULLETIN 

Vol. XIV. No. 1 

Published Monthly by the Regents of the University of Colorado. 
Entered at the Post Office, Boulder, Colorado, as second-class mail matter. 



APPRECIATION OF THE SERVICE OF 
JAMES HUTCHINS BAKER 

President of the University of Colorado 
JANUARY 1, 1892 TO JANUARY 1, 1914 




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Appeeciation of the Service of 

JAMES HUTCHINS BAKER, 

President of the University of Colorado, 

January 1, 1892 to January 1, 1914. 



INTRODUCTION 

On December 3rd, 1913, James Hutchins Baker, the third presi- 
dent of the University of Colorado, presented to the Board of Regents 
his resignation, to take effect on January 1st, 1914. In recognition 
of his distinguished service to the Institution in the twenty-two years 
of his presidency, the Regents gave him the title of President- 
Emeritus and voted to continue his salary to January 1st, 1915. At 
a later meeting of the Board they voted that the January number 
of the University of Colorado Bulletin should be a memorial in 
recognition of his service. The Trustees of the Carnegie Founda- 
tion for the Advancement of Teaching have recognized his educa- 
tional work by granting him a, retiring allowance. 

The news of President Baker's retirement brought expressions 
of regret from every side. Commemorative exercises were held in 
the Macky Auditorium on December 18th. The following evening 
the Faculty Senate gave a dinner in his honor. A reception in honor 
of Mrs. Baker was given by the ladies of the faculties on December 
17th. There have been many similar functions by various groups 
and organizations, and others are planned for the near future. 

In this Bulletin are given : the letter of resignation ; the 
Regents' resolutions ; resolutions of the faculty ; abstracts of addresses 
made at the commemorative exercises; excerpts from editorials, 
letters, and telegrams. In this "Introduction" an attempt is made 
to give certain pertinent facts that may not appear elsewhere. 

James Hutchins Baker, the son of Wesley and Lucy (Hutchins) 
Baker, was born in Harmony, Maine, October 13th, 1848. Both 
parents were natives of Maine, of old New England and Revolu- 
tionary stock. He received his elementary education in the common 
school of his native town, and at the age of eighteen taught his first 
school, being self-supporting from that time. He entered Bates 
College, at Lewiston, Maine, in 1869, receiving the degree A.B. 
in 1873 and the degree A.M. in 1876. In 1892 his Alma Mater 
conferred on him the honorary degree LL.D. From 1873 to 1875 
he was principal of the Yarmouth (Maine) High School. 



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He came to Colorado in 1875 to accept the principalship of 
the Denver High School (now East Denver High School), a position 
which he filled with distinction for seventeen years. During his 
administration the building now in use was erected, the attendance 
increased from fifty to over seven hundred, and the school became 
recognized as one of the best and most progressive secondary schools 
in the United States. 

From the beginning of his residence in Colorado, he identified 
himself closely with the educational interests of the State. He was 
president of the State Teachers' Association in 1880, and for six 
years was president of the Educational Council. He became a mem- 
ber of the National Council of Education in 1886, and in 1891 he 
was elected president of this, the highest educational council in this 
country. In 1907 he was president of the National Association of 
State Universities. At the time of his retirement, he was, in length 
of service, the dean of the state university presidents. 

As one of the national leaders in educational thought and 
inquiry, President Baker not only contributed many valuable papers 
to educational science, but, in connection with the National Educa- 
tion Association and the National Association of State Universities, 
he has initiated several investigations of wide importance and influ- 
ence, and has served on many committees. The following are 
especially noteworthy: The Report of the Committee of Ten on 
"Secondary School Studies," 1893, which aroused interest in prob- 
lems of secondary education throughout the entire nation and has 
since been the fruitful source of many similar investigations; 
"Economy of Time in Education," printed by the U. S. Department 
of Education in 1913, an investigation which contemplates the 
reorganization of American education; "A National University," a 
plan which he has advocated for many years and which is now receiv- 
ing most careful consideration by national educational and political 
leaders; and "The Standards of American Universities." 

President Baker is the author of "Elementary Psychology," 
1890, Charles E. Merrill Company of New York; "Education and 
Life," 1900, "American Problems," 1907, and "Educational Aims 



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and Civic Needs," 1913, all published by Longmans, Green, and Com- 
pany of New York. The first has been a recognized textbook for 
high schools and academies, and all have attracted favorable comment 
from leading magazines. He has also written many valuable papers 
and delivered many important addresses on educational and kindred 
subjects. 

On June 20th, 1882, he married Miss Jennie V. Hilton, a 
native of New York, daughter of Rev. John V. Hilton, a Congre- 
gational clergyman of Boston and later of Denver. They have two 
children, Helen (now Mrs. Hamilton McEary Jones, of San Juan, 
Porto Bico), and Hilton, a senior in the College of Liberal Arts. 
Mrs. Baker has taken an active part in society and in club work both 
in Boulder and in Denver, and has had a practical interest in many 
phases of student welfare. She was the founder of the Woman's 
League, an organization including all the women in the University, 
and during the eighteen years of its existence has been a trusted 
counsellor on its advisory board. She is a life member of the board 
of directors of the Woman's Club of Boulder, of which organization 
she was a charter member and president for the first three terms. She 
was president of the Colorado State Federation of Women's Clubs 
in 1898-1899. By her tact and sympathy she has won for the Univer- 
sity many strong and influential friends. In the light of President 
Baker's success, both as Principal of East Denver High School and 
as President of the University of Colorado, no higher tribute can be 
given Mrs. Baker than to say that in his work she has been a real 
helpmate. 

Upon the resignation of President Horace M. Hale on December 
9th, 1891, the Board of Eegents elected James Hutchins Baker to 
succeed him. He assumed his new duties on January 1st, 1892. He 
was not formally inaugurated, however, until May 21st, 1892. His 
address on this occasion is in many ways one of the most remarkable 
addresses ever delivered by him. The closing paragraphs, because 
they are interesting in the light of the achievements of the succeed- 
ing twenty-two years, are here recalled. 

"Here in this land of pure air and sunny skies, by the broad 



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plains and mighty mountains, among an ideal people, we may hope 
that an institution may grow which will not only serve its purpose 
to educate the young men and women within our borders, but may 
reach forth and invite many a youth from remote sections, who will 
find in Colorado the best opportunities for liberal education. 

" It shall be enough, if I may be able to contribute at this stage 
of its history, wisely and efficiently, toward the vigorous growth of 
an institution whose interests have already become to me a sacred 
trust, and then leave to others the enjoyment of the later years of 
fulfillment." 

The little college to which he had come was unknown outside 
of Colorado, and unrecognized by the people of the State whose 
name it bore. Principal Baker had made a mistake, people said, 
in giving up a position in which he had gained a national reputation, 
to take the presidency of an institution whose past could offer so 
little to its future. But the new president had an inspiring vision. 

He said: "Every institution must have its period of discour- 
agement and doubts, its period of expenditure without adequate 
returns, its period of enormous expense per capita. But during 
this time it is accumulating force, and, like the century plant, by 
and by it will burst into generous bloom. It took Harvard two 
hundred years to reach in some ways the development that our 
University has reached in fifteen years. The University has arrived 
at a new epoch in its history. The silent work of taking root and 
springing into the light has been done. It needs but the care of the 
fostering hand to insure a vigorous and rapid growth. This is a 
time of surprising activity in all material and educational interests 
in the State. The University must advance with these interests." 
And again : "The University of Colorado, too, has her mission. It 
is to take young men from the mines, the ranges and ranches, young 
men and women from the homes of honest toil, and offer them the 
greatest blessing the State can bestow upon its children. Colo- 
rado in the coming years will feel their influence, and the State will 
reap its greatest glory from its devotion to an ideal cause." 

During the five months preceding his formal inauguration, he 



INTRODUCTION. 9 

had formulated some of the policies that were to distinguish his 
administration. Of these may be noted the following: the Univer- 
sity had been widely advertised through the cooperation of a generous 
press and the efforts of the Faculty in visiting different parts of 
the State; the Medical School had been placed upon an excellent 
basis for superior work ; a Law School was to be opened and Graduate 
courses were to be formally offered the following year ; arrangements 
had been made for an efficient increase in the Arts faculty; and the 
gradual withdrawal of the preparatory classes had been begun. 

The ever-increasing needs of the University throughout his 
administration have compelled him to devote much of his energy 
and time to financial considerations. Upon each succeeding legis- 
lature he has urged the University's claims for adequate and liberal 
financial support — but always in the spirit of his inaugural message : 
"The State University does not wish to be greedy ; it recognizes that 
there are many other wants to be met, and that the State wishes to 
be generous to all its interests ; it simply asks that it may receive in 
proportion to the number and relative cost of its departments, and 
the magnitude of its needs." Wherever he went, he emphasized 
the needs of the University and its possibilities for state service. In 
the consideration of the problems which confronted him, he gave 
much thought to the financial condition of the State and its revenue- 
raising system. Senator Shafroth, as Governor, said that to Presi- 
dent Baker the State owes the recently-adopted taxation scheme — a 
scheme which will ultimately provide adequately for all State needs 
and at the same time distribute the tax burden equitably. Two 
items from the financial history of the University, as indicative of 
President Baker's work, may be given : In 1899-1900 when the State 
was unable to meet its appropriations and it seemed that the Univer- 
sity must close, he appealed directly to the citizens of the State 
and raised a loan fimd of over $70,000. In 1903, largely through 
his efforts, the tax levy for the maintenance of the University was 
increased from one-fifth to two-fifths of a mill. 

The physical growth of the University during the past twenty- 
two years is shown in these figures: increase of students — regular, 




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not including summer session and extension students — from 66 to 
1,306 ; increase of degrees — from 61 to 2,177 ; increase of annual 
income — from $40,000 to $305,000; increase of property — from 
$300,000 to $1,300,000; increase of buildings— from 8 to 21; 
increase of bound volumes in the Library — from 7,000 to 75,000 ; 
increase of faculty — from 32 to 200. In 1912, in proportion to 
population, tbe attendance was 64 per cent, larger than the average 
in the forty state universities. 

However, President Baker's claim on the future rests on higher 
ground than material progress. He might have increased the attend- 
ance at the expense of standards and sacrificed integrity to financial 
enrichment. Instead he chose sound scholarship and absolute free- 
dom from political methods. His insistence on these ideals has 
brought to the University merited recognition by national leaders. 
Early in his administration the medical and law courses were length- 
ened to four and three years respectively, and the entrance require- 
ments made those of the best similar institutions; later, two years 
of college work were demanded for admission. For almost eighteen 
years he bent his energies to the securing of adequate clinical facil- 
ities for the School of Medicine ; now, the last two years of the course 
are conducted in Denver, the School is the only one in the Rocky 
Mountain region, and the immediate future holds large promise for 
the upbuilding in this State of an institution, which, utilizing the 
peculiar advantages that its location gives it, shall equal the best 
medical schools in America. The College of Liberal Arts, throughout 
his administration, has maintained the standards of the best colleges 
in the country, and has met the changing needs and ideals in 
American education. Perhaps the central feature in its progress 
was the early adoption of the group-elective system. The Graduate 
School has been firmly established, research work of much value 
to Colorado has already been done, and, as the State is able to 
furnish adequate funds, plans for wide usefulness can be developed. 
In 1893 engineering courses of college grade were, through the 
establishment of the College of Engineering, first offered in Colo- 
rado. The work of this department is now recognized by technical 



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experts and large commercial organizations throughout the country. 
The Summer Session, 1904, because of its ideal location and its high 
standards, is serving a wide constituency. The College of Commerce, 
1906, the College of Education, 1908, and the School of Social and 
Home Service, 1912, are offering high-grade courses which give 
adequate training for particular needs. The School of Pharmacy, 
1911, is one of only eight pharmaceutical schools in the country 
requiring a full four-year high-school course for admission. The 
establishment of the University Extension Division in 1912, is the 
recognition by the University of its obligaton and opportunity to 
extend its campus to the boundary lines of the commonwealth. Of 
all these aspects of his work fuller treatment will be found elsewhere 
in this Bulletin. 

Scarcely less important is his service as an educational leader 
in the State. All in all, it would be safe to say that there is not a 
single educational interest in Colorado that has not been benefited 
by his far-reaching influence. In 1893 only seven secondary schools 
in the State were on the fully accredited list of the University, now 
there are sixty-nine. The other higher educational institutions of 
Colorado have followed his initiative, and have felt the quickening 
influence of his progressive policies. 

By all who have shared with him, however little, in the upbuild- 
ing of the University, President Baker will be remembered for what 
he is as much as for what he has done. The inspiration given to 
fellow workers and to students has enriched and ennobled their lives. 
His influence on the spiritual development of the Institution can 
hardly now be measured. Throughout his educational career he 
has strongly advocated the social end of education, and emphasized 
the strength and power and beauty of character, and the formative 
value of noble ideals. Students remember his chapel talks — the talks 
of a strong man with a sturdy faith in God, an aesthetic appreciation 
of Nature, and a catholic sympathy for his fellow men. He inspired 
them to activity and social service, to faith and hope and better 
things, and never wearied in urging the democracy of education and 
in emphasizing that the only worthy end of educational training is 



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public service. Fellow-workers on the faculties remember frankness 
and exact justice in all his dealings with them, and encouragement 
and sympathy in their work. Eegents remember far-sightedness, 
keen judgment, common sense, and patience in the formulating and 
carrying out of University policies. Indeed, when the mere achieve- 
ment of piling up wood and stone is long forgotten, these character- 
istics and the inspiration of his own personality will be remembered 
and will live. Self-sacrificing and self-effacing, he has regarded the 
University as his "sacred trust," and has given to it all he had — 
himself. 




LETTER OF RESIGNATION 

December 3, 1913. 

To the Regents of the University of Colorado: 

I hereby respectfully present my resignation as President of 
the University of Colorado to take effect January 1, 1914. That this 
year marks my sixty-fifth birthday, more than forty years in the 
service, and twenty-two at the University of Colorado, is not a 
sufficient reason for selecting this particular time to retire. But 
the decision of another question is involved — a matter of private inter- 
ests of much importance to me, which cannot well be postponed. The 
present relation of entire confidence and cooperation with the Regents, 
continuing an almost unbroken record, is I believe exceptional and note- 
worthy and adds to my natural regret in reaching this decision. The 
ever-ready cooperation of faculties, the loyalty to the University of 
graduates and students, the many, many instances of personal effort 
and sacrifice for the University by citizens, the generally helpful atti- 
tude of the press constitute a history that I shall always re-read with 
pleasure and gratitude. I predict a strong development of the 
University of Colorado and a speedy realization of many plans 
and promises that have been maturing for years. The high standard 
of the University is well known, and formal recognition by the 
Association of American Universities and by the Carnegie Founda- 
tion is purely a question of proper financial support for the Graduate 
School and the School of Medicine. Since I retire while in health 
and strength, I hope in ways still to be of service to the University 
and the cause of education. 

The many problems of the University which we have discussed 
so frequently you, of course, have well in mind. The financial con- 
dition for this period is good, save the contingency of non-payment 
in full of appropriations by the State. The recent enactment of a 
new revenue law, I believe, will place the State and the institutions 
on a better business basis. To avoid perpetual soliciting of funds 
from the Legislature, the University mill rate should be adjusted 



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to cover fully the needs. I believe that a bond issue for building 
needs of the various institutions, such as was proposed by the last 
legislature, should be made. This would meet the constantly increas- 
ing demand for buildings at the University. Mrs. Olivia Thomson, 
recently deceased, has made a bequest of $75,000 for a Chair in 
the School of Law to be known as "The Charles Inglis Thomson 
Professorship of Law." I am permitted to announce informally 
that our appeal for a large gift to the Medical School from a certain 
trust fund will be considered favorably — that we may be "very 
hopeful." The gifts already made to the University are numerous 
and important, and there is promise of even greater help from private 
sources in the future. 

We have already published in order of their importance the 
buildings required by the University. The completion of the Macky 
Auditorium naturally will soon be provided for either by the terms 
of the bequest or by State appropriation. The movement for a 
Decker Memorial Building for Women, to be erected on the grounds 
of the University, is being conducted by a committee, which is now 
raising funds. A wing of the proposed Henry S. Denison Building 
for Medical Research, the gift of Mrs. Ella Strong Denison, will 
soon be completed. 

The plan of the campus you have studied for years, and have 
marked out at least the general features. The "ravine," I believe, 
should be retained. The new athletic field should be prepared for 
use as soon as possible ; there are great possibilities for attractive 
athletic and recreation grounds on the new site by the creek. 

The Summer School is growing substantially every year, and 
should be further developed as a permanent department. The Extension 
work, so well inaugurated, should be pushed as rapidly as conditions 
will permit. There are new problems every year in the development 
of the Medical School, and I believe a recent step in advance has 
been taken, following your careful study of the conditions and needs 
of the School. The Graduate School of the University should receive 
funds for its specific uses, and its work, always of high standard but 
carried on under difficulties, should be encouraged. The work of 




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the College of Liberal Arts, revised within a few years, appears to 
be adapted to the demands of the times. A change in the courses to 
provide practical instruction for women students is under discussion. 
The further adjustment of the American University, in which I 
take a strong interest, is a part of the whole problem of the reorgani- 
zation of American Education. My views on this subject appear in 
several recent addresses and in a report on Economy of Time in 
Education, just published by the National Bureau of Education. 

I must again call your attention to the salary question in the 
University. The scale is not high enough for the best men. The 
demand upon a professor allows little time for private business. 
Either salaries should be raised, or, by some agency — state, private 
foundation, or organization within the faculty — retiring allowances 
should be provided — or both. The "Central Board" idea for state 
schools is problematical, and contains elements of extreme danger, 
especially to the possibilities of a genuine university. I strongly 
advise that the constitutional rights of the Regents, as a distinct 
governing Board of the University, be preserved. This I believe 
to be vital to the best development of the Institution. 
Very respectfully, 

JAMES H. BAKER, 

President of the University of Colorado. 



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RESOLUTIONS OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS 

Whereas, Dr. James H. Baker, the trusted and honored Presi- 
dent of the University of Colorado, has voluntarily tendered his 
resignation to its Board of Regents; 

Whereas, Dr. Baker has held the unanimous high respect of the 
student body, and of the Faculty and of the Board of Regents, all 
of whom have taken pride in his wise leadership ; 

Whereas, Dr. Baker has brought our University to a point 
where it not only brings glory to the Commonwealth of Colorado, but 
where it also commands the high regard of educators all over our 
country ; 

Whereas, Dr. Baker has so conducted himself in his high 
position and has so served the community that our State recognizes 
him as one of the best, most faithful and patriotic of her citizens, 
while outside the State he stands in the front rank of educators ; 

Therefore, Be It Resolved, That it is with feelings of sadness 
and unfeigned regret that we feel compelled to accept this resignation. 
But, after twenty-two years of faithful service to his State and the 
University in this high position, we feel that a decent regard to his 
personal feelings should be displayed and he be permitted to avail 
himself of the reward that has been offered solely as a mark of distinc- 
tion to his eminent standing in the educational world. 

Neither time nor space will permit us to review what has been 
accomplished at the University during the twenty-two years that 
have passed since Dr. Baker became President. It is enough to say 
that when he came here the University was but a beginning with 
sixty-six students; when he leaves it is a University with 1,306 
students. No one knows better than we, the Board of Regents, 
how much of this growth can be directly attributed to his energy, 
ability and unflagging zeal. We also know with what difficulties he 
has had at times to contend, but, despite it all, his courage never 
failed, his faith never wavered. Like the Romans of old, he never 
despaired of the Republic. And after all he emerged triumphant, 



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the Institution continued its growth, under his inspiration the people 
furnished the money, the students came, and we have one of the fore- 
most universities of the West. 

A most remarkable tribute to the personality of President Baker 
is apparent when we remember the absolute harmony that has pre- 
vailed in all directions under his administration. During this period 
eleven legislatures have passed into history, thousands of students 
have come and gone, hundreds of professors have taught their courses, 
scores of regents have held office ; but through it all no word of 
faction, no breath of scandal, has ever been heard against the institu- 
tion or its head. And now, after twenty-two years of labor, and with 
a faculty of over two hundred and a student body of over thirteen 
hundred, President Baker retires, an object of admiration and affec- 
tion of both students and faculty, and carrying with him unmixed 
regret and sorrow of the Board of Regents and the State officers 
of the State of Colorado. There exists a much stronger commen- 
dation of his work, well expressed in the words used about the great 
Sir Christopher Wren, but applicable to Dr. Baker in the full 
strength and vigor of his life — "If you would seek his monument, 
look about you." 

In losing Dr. Baker we, as the representatives of the people of 
Colorado, desire to bestow upon him such evidence and marks of 
our esteem as we possibly can. We have therefore given him the 
title of President-Emeritus, with one year's allowance of salary. 
Our only regret is that our duty to the Institution and those that 
are left prohibits us from doing more. 

And in conclusion, we are going to spread these few remarks 
upon our records as a permanent memorial to a faithful servant for 
work nobly done, and for the perusal and guidance of his successors 
in years to come. We are not saying good bye, for we expect at all 
times to have the benefit of suggestions and the help of the energy 
of Dr. Baker. But for whatever work he undertakes, or whatever 
he determines to do, we wish him Godspeed and the same success 
that has always crowned his efforts at the University. 



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* RESOLUTIONS OF THE FACULTY 

To James Hutchins Baker, 
President of the University of Colorado. 

It was the unanimous feeling of your Faculty that the twentieth 
anniversary of your installation could not be allowed to pass without 
some slight expression of our appreciation and goodwill ; and we would 
accordingly ask you to accept our heartiest congratulations coupled 
with our sincerest wishes for the future. Moreover, we would re- 
spectfully crave the special and intimate privilege of extending our 
felicitations to Mrs. Baker. To her, hardly less than to you, it must 
be a supreme pleasure to look back upon the struggles and achieve- 
ments of these twenty years. But of this, and of other phases of your 
life together, we may not speak; for they are sacred and your own 
hearts know them best. 

Similar tributes will doubtless be showered upon you from many 
sources ; but we may be permitted to feel that our own is inspired by 
particularly intimate knowledge. It would be easy to rehearse the 
numerical growth in staff and students during your incumbency, or 
to enlarge upon the improvement in equipment or the multiplication 
of buildings. In these respects your twenty years have been remark- 
able, or even phenomenal, a fact that is visible to all. Nor would we 
belittle their significance. Those of us who realize the conditions 
in years gone by, must be the first to proclaim the tremendous im- 
portance of this material progress under your guidance. And yet we 
feel that this phase represents only the less significant of your achieve- 
ments. All these ends might have been attained only to leave the 
University a fundamental failure. It might have stood in fair sem- 



*In January, 1912, the University and its friends celebrated the twentieth 
anniversary of President Baker's service. A faculty dinner on January 10, 
appropriate student exercises and a luncheon tendered by the Denver Chamber 
of Commerce on January 19, and an alumni dinner on January 20 were given 
in his honor. At the Faculty Dinner an engrossed address was presented 
to President Baker. This address is given here as an expression of Faculty 
appreciation. 




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blance of life and health, and been only a soulless hulk withal; its 
growth might have been purchased by the sacrifice of scholarly ideals 
on the one hand, or of probity and independence on the other. But, 
you, Sir, even in the sober self-criticism of maturer years, may 
well be thrilled with the proud knowledge that standards are not 
being bartered for numbers, and that buildings are not being 
erected at the price of integrity. 

You have fought persistently, even desperately, for necessary 
funds; but you have always refused to obtain them by dragging 
the University into the difficult and devious path of politics. 
Through every crisis you have kept your own name and the honor 
of the University free from any taint of methods that may achieve 
success for the passing hour, but eventually prove fatal to the health 
of the soul alike of an individual or of an institution. 

You have not failed to provide for the current needs of the 
University, but you have never lost sight of the future. Indeed it 
may well turn out that a consistent regard for the future has been 
the finest feature of your presidential policy. 

You have evinced your firm conviction that a state university 
must always consult the interests of the people, and meet their 
reasonable demands; but you have never shrunk from telling the 
people that they must rise in the scale of their desires. 

You have striven as no other President in the country for the 
strengthening and upbuilding of the High School system, regardless 
of thanks or recognition. 

In dealing with the students you have been willing to incur 
extreme unpopularity, if it seemed for their own ultimate good ; but 
those of us who know you best realize that in secret disciplinary 
conference you are always the representative of mercy. 

With reference to ourselves as members of the Faculty, we feel 
that you have never shirked telling us our duties, individually or 
collectively; but invariably you have been the first to forget a 
difference, your word has always been inviolable, and we have always 
felt that if any of us should be unfairly attacked from without, we 
had in you a just and staunch defender. 



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Above all, both in the University and everywhere else you 
have been the untiring champion of ideals of personal character and 
civic duty. Your voice has often been raised on behalf of pure 
science or humane studies ; but you have always demanded that 
neither scientist nor humanist should forget his obligation to share 
in the common lot and promote the general weal. 

It has been pleasing to us when your qualities and services have 
been recognized by the wider circles beyond the limits of our own 
campus and beyond the borders of our own State, but whether they 
had been applauded or decried, we should have appreciated them 
none the less. We feel, Sir, that we have been privileged to witness 
one of the finest sights in human experience, even a strong man 
grappling with an arduous task, and growing in greatness as his 
problems and difficulties increased in extent and stress. 

Some day the careful historian of the Commonwealth of Colo- 
rado will record the solemn judgment that President James H. 
Baker placed the State University on such sound foundations, 
equipped it with such a sane organization, and inspired it with such 
fine ideals of public service, that its career was assured for many 
generations. And some writer will compare that president to a 
Doric column, not depending for approval on Corinthian foliage 
or Ionic volutes, but standing in fine simplicity beneath the corner 
of the temple to be praised or blamed for its fundamental merits 
of line and proportion and strength. lie might well add that those 
who looked upon the column from near at hand always realized 
that it would carry its burden, however great, securely and unfalter- 
ingly to the end of its day. 

We trust that you will recognize how warmly we do congratu- 
late you and how sincerely we hope that a generous tale of years 
may be added to the score so happily accomplished. 

The Faculty of the University of Colorado. 

By its committee. 




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EXERCISES COMMEMORATING PRESIDENT BAKERS 

SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY AND TO 

THE STATE 



MACKY AUDITORIUM. DECEMBER 18. 1913 
ORDER OF EXERCISES 



Dean J. Raymond Bbackett, 
Presiding. 

Pbocessional Orchestra 

Song Colorado Varsity 

Addresses 

His Excellency, Elias M. Amnions, Governor of Colorado. 

Mr. Lucius C. Paddock, Representative of the "College Town." 

Music Orchestra 

Addresses 

Superintendent William H. Smiley, Representing the Public 
Schools. 

President William F. Slocum, Representing the Colleges. 

President Charles A. Lory, Representing the State Educational 
Institutions. 

Song If You're for Colorado 

Addresses 

William H. Bryant, Of the Board of Regents. 

Mr. John L. Haley, President of the Associated Students. 

Mr. Bethuel M. Webster, 1894, For the Alumni. 

Music Orchestra 

Address 

Dean John D. Fleming, Member of the Faculty. 
Response 

President Baker. 

Song Glory, Glory, Colorado 

Recessional Orchestra 

Dean Bbackett. — In September, 1875 the corner-stone of the Main 
Building was laid. At that time the only life on the campus was the flowers 
of the desert and the animals of the wild. In the same month and year 
there came to Denver, James Hutchins Baker who took charge of the high 
school of that city; for seventeen years he served the State as a foremost 
educator in that capacity. For the last twenty-two years he has been 
President of this University, completing a public service of forty-one years. 




24 UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO. 

Today all departments are assembled in thankfulness that strength and 
power and wisdom have been given him to accomplish his great task. 

We are also thankful for this ample building, the gift of Andrew 
J. Macky. 

One student in the East Denver High School, when Dr. Baker was 
principal, is now, by his high office and integrity, of the greatest service 
to the concluding year of President Baker's administration — His Excellency, 
the Governor. 

His Excellency, Elias M. Ammons, Governor of Colorado. — I really 
think it is a very fitting thing that I should appear here today, not only on be- 
half of the State, but as a citizen of the State. My acquaintance with President 
Baker goes back to 1876, when he was quite a young man, and had been 
teaching but a short time. I am glad to be able to do what I can on this 
memorable occasion, both as the chief executive of the State, and as a 
citizen who has derived some benefit from Dr. Baker, and who has observed 
much good to the State from his splendid work. 

There is a difference in the success of men. Some have become famous 
because of their wealth; some achieve distinction in political life; some on 
account of inventions of new or great industries. All of these may furnish 
pride for the recipients; but it is pleasing to me to do honor to a kind of 
success which I think is much greater than any of these. President Baker 
has not saved any money. His success, however, is one which has been 
shared by the locality in which he has lived, the State in which he has 
worked, the citizens with whom he has labored, and the people of the 
entire Nation. I believe that we cannot fully appreciate the great benefits of 
his work in Colorado during the last thirty-five or forty years. 

There is another phase that I wish to speak of, and that is his personality. 
In almost every great work there is some strong personality responsible for 
it, and that personality reaches out unconsciously. Of all the large number 
of men engaged in prominent lines of service in this western country, there 
is none of stronger personality than President Baker. Even when he was a 
boy, he had this same character. He brought it to the high school, and it is 
that which has impressed itself so strongly here. 

I am pleased to be here, because I realize that President Baker 
has been valuable in making our State. I feel that none of us, perhaps, 
can realize how strong an influence he has exerted in this regard. It is a 
great institution that has been built up here, and nearly all of it has been 
built by him. It is not completed yet, but the foundation has been laid, and 
the plans have been prepared most carefully. It is for those who come after 
him to build to those plans. If they do, the success of this institution will 
continue, and I have every confidence that those plans will be followed. 

President Baker is but sixty-five. It is true, he has spent forty years 
in educational work, twenty-two in bringing this Institution to the 
front, but he still has before him days of influence in this great work that 
he has thus far perfected. He has been a live man in the past for the benefit 



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of his state and his country and, knowing him as I have known him since 
I was a boy, I realize that, while he steps out from the old field, he steps 
into a greater field of usefulness for the people of this great western 
country, and the influence which he will exert along the old lines will be 
great. Not only as a citizen, but as the chief executive of the State, I wish 
him Godspeed. 

Dean Brackett. — Boulder, the home town of Mr. Macky, and the seat 
of the University, is represented by Mr. Lucius C. Paddock. 

Mb. Lucius C. Paddock, Representative of the "College Town." — One 
fine day in the month of December, Dr. Baker resigned the presidency of this 
Institution, and the next day it snowed. And what a fall was there, my 
countrymen! The surprises of nature and this man Baker were almost con- 
temporaneous, and were certainly amazing. As to the latter, Boulder has got 
to looking upon Dr. Baker as a fixture, or rather as a fixed star in its 
firmament. Again the weather serves us for illustration. He came in like 
a lamb; he goes forth like a lion. He came to us a modest high-school 
principal of only state reputation; he goes from us a university president 
with a marvelous record of achievement, an educator of international fame. 
He came to us to preside over a university of sixty-six students; he goes out 
voluntarily when commander of a student body of 1,306. He came to us 
when there were but two or three shabby buildings on the campus; he goes 
out with a campus so full of buildings that the Regents must remove the 
athletic field to make room for more buildings. He came to us a youth of 
forty-three; he goes forth a physical giant in the fullness of his intellectual 
and physical powers on the verge of sixty-five. He came here to build; he 
has built. Now the builder lays down the tools of his craft while possessed 
of all those splendid faculties which enabled him to create the edifice; he 
lays down his tools at a time when his eye is bright enough to look over 
the completed work and his vision acute enough to advise his successor 
and gently lead us all to the achievement of still greater things. 

He had no herald. There was no trumpeting. He came modestly, and 
he gently wrought; and his career exemplifies the wisdom of the classical 
inscription 

"Let him not boast who puts his armor on, 

As he who puts it off, the battle won." 

Boulder has played an important part in the expansion of the University 
— part of which it was, and all of which it saw. From Marinus G. Smith, 
who gave a part of the site; from Captain Dave Nichols, Captain C. M. 
Tyler, James P. Maxwell, and other pioneers who carried through the leg- 
islative measure to locate the University here; and from those citizens who 
gave money to assure its location — inspiration was received and out of it has 
come a spirit of devotion to the Institution, without which even the efforts 
of a Baker would have been unavailing. Boulder has done the good work. 




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She has kept the faith. In other words, she has been true to herself, for as 
the University prospers so Boulder prospers. 

What the rugged pioneers planned in a crude fashion first, Baker has 
splendidly realized. Individual citizens of Boulder have added their gifts, 
concrete evidences of their love of the Institution: as witnessed by the Buck- 
ingham library, the Phillips Art collection, the Macky Auditorium in which 
we meet, and other free-will offerings. And shall we confess it? In that 
elder day when lobbying was not taboo, good, churchly, righteous citizens 
of Boulder actually rolled logs in the halls of the Legislature and pulled wires, 
visible and invisible. It was Dr. Baker who mentioned a new philosophy — 
not hitch your wagon to a star, but hitch your star to a wagon. He hitched 
his star to Boulder — the wagon which has carried him for twenty-two years, 
and which its citizens would wheel for another twenty-two. They carried 
and fetched at Baker's beck and nod. They resolved when he wanted a reso- 
lution, they tried to keep pace with his enormous appetite for more buildings, 
more professors, more apparatus, and to this end bullied legislators, and 
made governors and treasurers and auditors uncomfortable. They always 
stood at the right hand of the President, ready to execute his orders. 

The real growth of the University came with Baker. The ground had 
been in part prepared, but it was rocky and strong hands were needed. The 
material was here, but it needed a builder. Obstacles were mountainous: a 
chilly press; a people not yet ripe for a university, because they did not 
know what a university was; denominational colleges forging to the front, 
and the University standing still; doors seventeen years open to free higher 
education, and at the end of that period, the first seventeen years of its life, 
only sixty-six students. But Baker came with faith. A man of iron, of 
indefatigable industry, of growing intellect under the attrition of events, 
he was very human. The proof of that is with us. He had one superstition. 
For twenty-two years he labored and then he resigned, Mr. Chairman, in 
what we must regard as undue panic for fear that the twenty-two might 
grow into twenty-three. 

Should you ask me, whence came the devotion of Boulder to the Univer- 
sity, I shall answer, I shall tell you that it came from a deep conviction of 
the earnestness and the oneness of purpose evident in the President. It came 
not from Dr. Baker's social mingling with the people, for Baker had no time 
for that. It came from a gradually but long-since formed conviction that 
here on the hill sat a man who had a vision, a dream, and the constancy and 
the intellect and the power to make that dream come true — a dream that 
was to make of a struggling little college a great university, and of Boulder, 
the seat of that University, the center of the most virile college life in the 
West. Business men saw him dismiss whole classes for failure to do good 
work; and, though they were losing student trade, they argued it must be 
right since Baker did it. By degrees they came to see the unfolding, though 
they had missed the processes, of a plan, a high standard rather than great 
numbers, quality rather than quantity. There were no knee-breeches cadets, 
no sub-preparatory school, no pets because of the accident of birth or fortune 



COMMEMORATIVE EXERCISES. 27 

— here a democracy of letters and opportunity. From this lofty pinnacle on 
which Baker stood, he brought the schools of Colorado up to the standard 
Boulder had set at his inspiring call, and that the University had set as its 
standard for admission. And again, we saw him lift Boulder still higher 
and the University higher to keep on the level with or just a little above the 
excellence of other schools which his policy stirred to generous, noble 
rivalry. Boulder saw Baker making our vain boast one to which we could 
justly lay claim — the Athens of Colorado; and Boulder's citizens hastened to 
meet the necessities of their growing favors and responsibilities by making 
Boulder the place to live, one of the fittest of all places for the youth of the 
land. And our gratitude has always been to Dr. Baker because he did not 
tell us what to do. He was not an interfering President. He was content 
with his work here on the hill and had not time to also run affairs down 
town. It was not aloofness, but Baker was "sawing wood." He was here 
looking after the affairs of a great state office. Boulder began to feel years 
ago the benefit accruing from a University so managed. It began to take 
just pride in the absence of criticism and scandal touching University 
affairs. It never had to deplore. It was always in a position to point with 
pride. You recall Browning's lines: 

"God's in his Heaven: 
All's right with the world.' 1 

When other institutions had their troubles, Boulder citizens would shrug 
their shoulders in utter content and say: "Baker's on the hill, all's well over 
there." 

Well, Dr. Baker, between you and us, we did it. We are proud of it, 
mighty proud to have met you and to have worked with you; mighty sorry 
to lose you, but full of gladness to know that the world of education has 
justified our estimate of you, and that you retire with the respect, the 
admiration and the love of every citizen of Boulder; glad that you go in 
the fullness of your faculties; glad that the Regents kept a string on you as 
President-Emeritus for we shall feel that, when you are liberated from the 
responsibilities of management, you can reciprocate the good things said and 
done for you by helping to make Dr. Farrand as useful as you have been, 
and by staying here by the scenes you set upon the stage, amid the people 
who trusted you and whom you trust, under the trees you planted on the 
campus, and where the eye of the builder can always see the processes of 
unfolding of his own great plans. We trust the interruption of our relation 
is only official, and we hope that the remainder of your years, and those of 
your estimable wife may be spent in Boulder, and in the State you have so 
ably, so nobly, so adequately served. 

Dean Brackett. — Associated with Dr. Baker in charge of the East 
Denver High School and succeeding him as its head in 1892, Dr. William 
H. Smiley, now superintendent of education in Denver, speaks for the 
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Superintendent William H. Smiley, Representing the Public Schools. 
— It is a great pleasure to come here to bring my contribution to my friend, 
my principal, my president. If I should do justice to a friendship of twenty- 
seven years, I should take all of the time allotted to pay tribute to the 
tenderness of his heart as well as to the greatness of his intellect. I have 
known him so intimately that I wish there were time to indicate specifically 
to you instances attesting his sympathy and unfailing strength. 

I have seen the young teacher, the hopeless boy beginning to teach, 
come to him after two weeks and say: "Principal Baker, you cannot certify 
that I am earning my salary; I desire to resign." The answer comes: 
"Young man, go back to your desk; when I begin to talk about your resign- 
ing, it will be time enough for you to be thinking about it." Always encour- 
agement for the weak; always a sturdiness that gave courage to all with 
whom he worked. Such is the personal side that all of you do not know. 
Few are aware that of all the great work that has shaped the form of 
secondary education in America, the larger part is his. For years before 
the Committee of Ten produced the report, for which everyone of us owes 
gratitude, it was being shaped for that committee by the man you now 
honor. His is the soul that has moved to the uttermost bounds all who 
love public education. At this very moment, after he has spent ten years 
trying to get the ear of the educational world, all the educational world of 
America is discussing the ultimate form and shape that public education 
should have, and the moving spirit comes from your President and mine. 
There is a kind of glory in the imperfect, and the shape and condition 
of this auditorium carry me back to the East Side High School when we 
first used it, and when it was in just about the same state of incompletion 
as this is in now. I believe, and it ought to be everyone's belief, that 
there is nothing finished; that there is always work to do in the shaping 
of things; so, while there has been this marvelous work, in laying the 
foundation and rearing the frame of the University, there is still left for 
other hands the finishing. 

I can remember the words of a strong woman, who said: "When 
you go with a burden to Principal Baker, he takes it up and you on top 
of it, and walks away with it as if it were a feather-weight." This is the 
kind of thing he has been doing for us, and now all these burdens he lays 
down; but will he rest? No. There is still a marvelous opportunity for 
him in the new form of rest and labor that has come. I know of no soul 
that has seen the vision of a democracy and especially of an educated 
democracy with the clearness that he has seen it; and out of the wisdom 
of all these years, he can stand to one side and point to us the way. He 
can tell university presidents, if he will, the solution of many problems; 
and he can tell the city superintendent, the principal, the public school 
teacher, the things which we need to know, because he has a vision that 
embraces all that the best in the world for ages past has thought and felt. 
I have a friend who reads each one of President Baker's addresses to 
recognize in them some references to the Plato whom he loves; and out 



COMMEMORATIVE EXERCISES. 29 

of this wisdom can come from him to us help to guide us in changing our 
imperfect visions into the fullness of glory that we would like to see. The 
educational world of Colorado extends to him the heartiest greetings and 
blessings in the completion of the work and the fulfillment of the vision that 
I know he sees. 

Dean Brackett. — While President Baker was building a university 
in the northern part of the State, another great administrator was raising 
' up an institution of higher learning in the south. He is a man of great 
culture: he has cultivated the pocket-books of millionaires; he has 
cultivated the riches of his own soul, and the harvest has been appraised 
by Harvard University. President Slocum brings a message from a neigh- 
borly institution and also from the wider world of learning. 

President William F. Slocum, Representing the Colleges. — It certainly 
is a privilege to share in the congratulations of friends of President and 
Mrs. Baker upon all they have accomplished. There is no contribution which 
equals the upholding of the educational movements of a commonwealth. 
There is nothing in the life of a republic that counts for so much as the 
development of its schools, its colleges and its universities. I want to 
speak for the institutions of Colorado other than this distinguished Univer- 
sity. It was Aristotle who said that the greatest happiness in all life lies 
in the full development and the full use of one's faculties. When one has 
an opportunity opened up before him, such as existed here in this Institution, 
and brings to it all the powers of his mind and heart, all of his intellectual 
strength, and succeeds in the development of an Institution like this, it is 
a source of great congratulation. The man today to be pitied is the one who 
has nothing to do, who finds no work and no opportunity; but here the man, 
adequate for the task, has found his opportunity and has entered into it, and 
today we look back upon his victory. He has risen to his task. Today there 
ought to be in his heart, and in the minds of all his friends, a sense of glad- 
ness and great joy, that he has done his work well. 

The great work of life is not done upon the mountain top. One must 
have his vision, but it is the daily toil, the many things of life handled 
well, it is the drudgery of human life that really brings the victory. 

If President Baker should give to us a record of what he has done, 
he could say that these have been days and months and years of hard toil. 
We love to think of that Great Teacher of us all, who communed on the 
mountain top with unseen beings, but we must remember that He came down 
from His mountain to find humanity needing help, to walk through the 
valleys of His country finding toil and often pain, and sometimes crucifixion. 

Our friend has had his visions, but remember also there have been 
work and toil, sometimes disappointment, and again and again pain. His 
victory is all the greater because he has had these experiences. 

I congratulate him today, as I congratulate this great University, that 
he has helped in the creation of a commonwealth. It is not only the great 




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things for the University that he has done, but he has set the pace for the 
other institutions of our beloved State. It is easier for us to do our work 
because he has seen the ideal and entered into it. This Institution, so 
full of spirit and so full of the realization of great opportunities is holding 
before everyone of us, in our great commonwealth, the ideal of how things 
ought to be done. 

I am glad to be here, and it comes to my own mind that this is not a 
day for sadness, but for congratulation that we have had a great man in 
our State to do brave and noble work, one who was adequate for his task, 
who has helped the State and helped the Nation. 

Dean Brackett. — Another neighbor, to the north of us, the State Agri- 
cultural College, is represented by an honored alumnus, President Lory. 

President Charles A. Lory, Representing the State Educational 
Institutions. — In thinking of the message that I came to bring, I find 
it very difficult to speak from the standpoint of an executive of another State 
institution. I find myself always stepping into the place of an alumnus, and 
thinking what Dr. Baker meant to me as a student, of the training he gave 
and what it has meant to me since I have taken up my work in another 
institution. 

This great Institution represented by stately buildings, all except one, 
built since President Baker has been at the head of the University, is a rare 
monument to his service, but in my opinion the greatest monument is not 
on the campus, not in the buildings, but in the principles he inculcated in 
the minds of those trained here. 

How well do I remember his chapel talks when we assembled twice a week. 
Yes, there was cutting of chapel in those days, I understand that the practice 
has been discontinued since. I recall often and with pleasure those meet- 
ings and the ideal of service and of citizenship he taught. 

So far as I have been able in my work at the Agricultural College, 
I have tried to work out this ideal of service and of good citizenship. I 
assure you too that it is not in the time of prosperity that an institution's 
best growth in character is made. I believe that we students got more 
in the dark days of 1899 and 1900 when the professors were not getting 
their pay, in fact were furnishing some of the funds to carry the work of 
their departments, and we student assistants, who were working on the 
great salary of from $150 to $200 a year, yet found it possible to purchase 
some trinkets for the laboratory, than the students of a more prosperous 
period, for it is that kind of a time and that kind of a spirit and the 
example set by a great man like our President, that bring out the best in 
a student. 

I am amazed when I think of the work that has been done in the twenty- 
two years that Dr. Baker has been President. From about three hundred 
men and women in the institutions of higher learning in this State, the 
number has increased one hundred-fold, at the University the increase has 
been two-hundred-fold. 



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If you will take the enrollment of this Institution from the time that 
President Baker came here and plot it as ordinates with the years as 
abscissae, you will find that the curve has a slope of forty-five degrees. I 
am sure that if we were able to plot the curve of influence of the Institution, 
we would find it to be even steeper than that of enrollment. This growth 
has been made against very great obstacles, because it was not only neces- 
sary to build up the University, but the high schools and the public schools 
as well, to furnish, as it were, the raw material for the University. 

It was a time when the various State institutions of higher learning were 
finding themselves, it was necessary to do much pioneer work, some mis- 
takes were made. The growth of the institutions was rapid, the State support 
not always generous, the confidence in the future not strong. The growth 
of the University testifies to the business ability of its President, it testifies 
to his ability as an educator, it is a splendid tribute to his statesmanship 
and to his confidence in Colorado. 

I feel that while we have made great progress in higher education in 
Colorado in the last twenty-two years we must look forward to making 
even greater progress in the next twenty-two years. President Baker 
started out witb small equipment and with indifferent support and yet, 
with conditions uncertain and difficult as they were in the educational 
affairs of the State, he has been able to build up an institution like this, 
lifting at the same time the whole public-school system to higher efficiency. 
Continuing then what shall we, who have been privileged to work with him 
and have the benefit of his example, be able to do for education in Colorado. 
The problems of the future will be just as numerous as they were in the 
last twenty-two years, conditions will change as rapidly, and the State of 
Colorado is expecting and is going to expect a full measure of service from 
all of her institutions. 

A new ideal has come into education, a new ideal of service. The 
institutions will be judged by what they do for Colorado, what they do to 
develop her resources, what they do for better citizenship, what they do to 
lift the ideals of morality. It rests with the faculties and executives of 
their institutions. Fortunate are we if we are to have the service of 
our President in the future. I hope that his lot will be cast in Colorado, 
and that he will continue in the educational service of the State, that we 
can all work together. Let each institution carry on its special work, 
let us get together and correlate our activities so that all the institutions 
of higher learning may work as one effective whole in State service. We 
have a splendid function to perform, and we must perform it nobly. 

Speaking for the State Teachers' College, the School of Mines, and the 
State Agricultural College, we are ready to meet with the men of the 
University to work out such a plan. In behalf of these other State insti- 
tutions I pledge you men of Colorado the most cordial cooperation. In 
this we shall expect much from the University, we look to you for wise 
counsel and advanced statesmanship. God grant that our University may 




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continue to hold the position of leadership in the education of the State that 
it has held in the last twenty-two years. 

♦William H. Bryant, fob the Board of Regents. — I wish to express my 
sincere regret at my inability to be present at the exercises arranged on 
December 18th to commemorate the service of President Baker. I had made 
every arrangement to be present, but owing to some matters that came up 
unexpectedly it was simply impossible. I think every loyal citizen of Colo- 
rado should have united in paying tribute to Dr. Baker for his services to 
the State and to Education. I have known Dr. Baker since before he went 
to the University, and have watched his work with great care, and I must 
say that no educator that I know of has made the record he has. His retire- 
ment is more than a loss to the University and the State — it is a calamity; 
but it is something that we had to face, and we must accept the inevitable 
and do the very best we can. We are fortunate in the assurance that we 
will have the benefit of Dr. Baker's advice from time to time in the future, 
and let us hope that a long life will be spared to him, that he will spend it 
in Colorado, and that we may at all times be permitted to avail ourselves of 
his assistance. 

Dean Brackett. — The greatest ornaments to a university are not beauti- 
ful gates, broad walks, velvet lawns, graceful trees, and costly buildings, 
but a friendly, studious, energetic, and orderly student body, a student body 
developing its own high ideals and voluntarily conforming thereto. Such 
an association is represented by Mr. John L. Haley. 

Mr. John L. Haley, President of the Associated Students. — The great 
work and the great achievements of President Baker, during his twenty-two 
years of service to our University, have been ably told you by those speakers 
who have preceded me. 

It is not for us, the students, with our small conception of the value of 
such achievements, to realize at this time all that these years of earnest 
effort have accomplished. This realization will come to us after our names 
have stood upon the alumni role, and after we have learned from the rough 
school of experience the wisdom that is essential and the price that is 
demanded for the accomplishment of such great things as he has accom- 
plished here. 

We realfze in our small way the magnitude of his great work, and the 
esteem with which it is regarded by men whose privilege it is to judge; but 
it is not by this realization alone that the expression from the students is 
prompted, but by the four years of our daily association with him, out of 
which has grown a feeling of reverence. 



*At the last moment Regent Bryant was detained in Denver by urgent 
business. As a substitute for his address a letter sent to the committee in 
charge of the exercises is given. 




COMMEMORATIVE EXERCISES. 33 

We have recognized in him the faithful guardian of our every interest, 
as children recognize their father as the guardian of their interests. 

His character and life have been an inspiration to us; for, as the 
mountains lend beauty and grandeur to the location of our Alma Mater, so 
has his life and character lent strength and dignity to her atmosphere. 

And so there is a feeling of sadness in our hearts as we think that this 
is the last time we shall meet with him as students — as his children; and 
it is with the deepest regret that we see him leave us. 

[Here Mr. Haley, on behalf of the students, presented a loving cup to 
President Baker.] 

President Baker, may this small token, which I have the honor to present 
to you, on behalf of the students, serve to remind you in the years to come 
of our appreciation for all that you have done for us, and of our great love 
for all that you have been to us. May you be blessed with happiness through 
the years that are to come. 

The cup is engraved as follows: 

WE THE STUDENTS OF 

THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO 

PRESENT THIS CUP TO 

OUR PRESIDENT 

JAMES H. BAKER 

AS A TOKEN OF 

OUR AFFECTIONATE REGARD 

AND ESTEEM 

PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO 

1892-1914 

Dean Brackett. — The ripened fruit of the garnered years — learned and 
loyal alumni. Mr. Bethuel M. Webster. 

Mr. Bethuel M. Webster, 1894, for the Alumni. — Upon this memorable 
occasion when we are gathered to honor the work and character of the 
retiring President of the University of Colorado, I deem it no small honor 
to represent the Alumni of this Institution. Although I regret my meagre 
equipment for a task so pleasant, I take it up with a heart grateful for the 
friendship of President Baker, which extends back into high-school days 
and covers a period of nearly thirty years. 

I have not the retentive memory with which some are endowed — or 
which others by diligent application have acquired, but I well remember 
the reading by Dr. Baker from the chapel platform of the little story of 
the old man whose custom it was to retire to the seclusion of the forest 
upon his birthday and spend the entire day in meditation and thought, 




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examining his inner self and contemplating his manner of life and thought. 
How appropriate that we should pause at this milestone, if but briefly, 
and consider the work and standards of this University, which to so great 
an extent are the result of, and the reflection of, the life, work and ideals 
of the man who is just leaving the President's chair. 

As the prophet is not without honor save in his own country, so we 
have so gradually and so naturally appropriated to ourselves the talents 
and the energies which he has given with such prodigal generosity, that 
only now do we begin to realize the great benefit which has been ours in 
having such a man at the helm during this formative period in the history 
of education in this State. 

Time and time again I have thought, not only that his work and his 
worth were not appreciated as they should be, but have marvelled at 
the remarkable determination with which he has carried out his great 
purpose to establish here a university, second in standing to none in this 
country, in the face of such difficulties and discouragements as would have 
overwhelmed any but a man of surpassing ability and unlimited capacity for 
hard work. 

I need not refer to the increase in the number of students or to the 
constructive work of his rare executive ability in the establishment and 
reorganization of the various schools constituting the University — in the 
first graduating class of one of which it was my privilege to be a member — 
nor need I remind you of the beautiful and stately buildings now erected 
and planned, which are not only monuments to the generosity of those 
whose names they bear, but which altogether are a monument to the genius 
of our retiring President and to his great love and unceasing effort for this 
Institution. 

However great have been the results in the growth of the University 
in numbers, in buildings, and in the machinery of education, greater and 
more far-reaching and inspiring has been the example of his wonderful 
devotion to this cause and to the high ideals of life and accomplishment 
for which the University has stood in his administration. 

The business life has in it the promise of affluence and power to those 
who are diligent in its pursuit; the professional life has the inducement 
of position and preferment to those who attain success in its callings; the 
life of the artist holds out to those who are ambitious the possibility of 
popular acclaim; the life of the soldier who goes into battle with blood 
tingling with excitement and enthusiasm of the occasion carries with it the 
promise of glory for devotion to one's country; but how much greater and 
more worth while than any of these is the life of the educator who has the 
courage to put aside the allurements of wealth, of luxury, of power, of 
position and of preferment and to choose for his life work the training 
and moulding of those who will thereafter do the great things of this life. 

How more than fortunate that while still in the prime of life President 
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has so nobly filled, and that he will be free to devote all of his efforts in 
a wider sphere to the working out of the problems of his chosen profession. 

As we leave our Alma Mater and scatter to the distant quarters of the 
earth, we may like thoughtless children seem to forget the guiding influence 
of our college days, but wherever we go there is an invisible web radiating 
from this common center, with a thread extending out to every one of us, 
even to the remotest corners of the globe, which binds us together in a 
common regard and admiration for the man who some twenty-two years 
ago had the courage and the optimism to accept the presidency of a then 
struggling institution and under whose guidance during that time it has 
attained an enviable position in the educational world. 

The Alumni of this Institution, who owe to him such a debt of grati- 
tude, therefore unite in paying a tribute to the commanding figure of our 
retiring President, whose remarkable constructive and executive ability, 
combined with the high standards of thought and action for which he has 
always stood, have been a constant encouragement and inspiration to 
students, alumni, faculty and fellow citizens. 

May he live long and gather a harvest of an hundred-fold from the labor 
which he has so generously given without stint or measure to all who have 
been associated with him. 

Dean Brackett. — Strangers admire the site of the University of Colo- 
rado; many find a charm in the campus; but it is not on such things as 
these that the fame of a university depends. Are there instructors who 
know a subject, who teach it, who make scholars? Are there men on the 
Faculty who write what the world loves to read? Among its leaders are 
there builders, projecting cantilevers into space, raising highways for other 
men to pass over to new points of vantage in the conquest of Nature? 
Such a Faculty, abundantly able to discuss and abundantly able to administer 
higher education in Colorado, President Baker has formed. It is his truest 
monument. Buildings may burn, sites may be changed, political estimates 
are unstable; the fame of a president is in the estimate of his Faculty. 
That verdict today is uttered by the loved voice of the School of Law — 
John D. Fleming. 

Dean John D. Fleming, Member of the Faculty. — The old lawyers of 
what may be termed Merrie England, had a writ which they called in the bar- 
barous Latin of the period, the writ of ne injuste vexes. It was a writ of 
prohibition, and was employed by one who felt himself unduly harassed 
by the exactions of a superior. I would, Mr. Chairman, that I might invoke 
the protection of that process against the agitations of this present moment. 

I am bid on behalf of the Senate and Faculty of the University to say a 
few words of farewell to President Baker. It is fitting that one should do this, 
but I feel altogether unequal to the task. There are moments when, what- 
ever the provocation, the tongue is silent. I cannot express my own feelings 




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upon this occasion, much less the varied emotions which must be rising in 
the breasts of many who are assembled here and demanding disclosure. 

But if I have not "the power of necessary words," I can perhaps 
express in simple phrase the thought that is doubtless uppermost 
in the minds of the faculty assembled here, when they consider their 
relations with President Baker in the light of the limitations by which he 
has been necessarily governed. In all these relations, I believe I can say in 
behalf of this Faculty and without a dissenting voice, President Baker has 
been a just man. 

I believe that it was the good St. Benedict who said: "If one man be 
just, I am well. If one man be wise and learned and virtuous, still I am 
well; yet, until all these graces do come into one man, one man shall not 
come into my grace." It is perhaps too much in these profane times to 
demand that all of the mere graces should come even unto a college presi- 
dent; but, speaking as a lawyer, and I was a lawyer before I was a pro- 
fessor, and standing here, perhaps as the attorney for this assembled faculty, 
I believe I am warranted in saying that the greatest thing of all of these 
that have been mentioned on the part of a university president, in his rela- 
tions to the faculty, is his broad appreciation and practice of justice. 

Professor Curtis, in an address upon the twentieth anniversary of Presi- 
dent Baker's work here, said that President Baker had received his degree 
at Bates College in Maine, but that he was educated in the University of 
Colorado. That is equivalent to saying, perhaps, that President Baker in 
this interval got wisdom; and I believe, and I think that every member 
of this faculty believes, that with all his wisdom he got understanding — 
understanding of his teachers' needs, their desires, their hopes, aspirations, 
abilities, and, too, their defects and shortcomings; and that in all these per- 
plexities, and though moving sometimes amidst hazards, he has ever exhibited 
the character of a just judge. Greater praise hath no man than this. 

And so it comes to say Farewell. President Baker's active connection 
with the University ceases in a few days. While the shadows still are falling, 
let us hope not far toward the east, he leaves us. In the language of one 
of America's greatest orators, "while yet in love with life and raptured with 
the world" he passes to other scenes and other adventures. May every good 
fortune go with him. 

On tomorrow, the 19th day of December, the University closes its doors 
for the calendar year, and President Baker practically lays down the reins. 
When two more tomorrows shall have come, the sun will be lowest in 
the heavens. Shall we say that when "tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in 
with petty pace," we then shall witness the solstice of our discontent? Let 
us hope that soon a glorious summer will succeed. 

And so again, Goodbye! If these words mean anything, President Baker, 
they mean, God be with you and by you. 



Dean Beackett. — Now we come to the text itself, the man whom we 
have met to honor. What we have done thus far has been to prepare our 



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minds to receive and to treasure up what his years of wisdom may bestow 
upon us. 

Honored Sir, the door of the golden opportunity that you have so nobly 
improved, was opened by the hand of a classmate; his eloquence welcomed 
and advised you on the day of inauguration; and this day of completion 
is less perfect, missing the touch of a vanished hand and the sound of a 
voice that is still. He died in that first year. I revere the name of Isaac C. 
Dennett, Professor of Latin; on this occasion I would not pronounce it for 
myself or for you; but his name stands for the silent many. As I speak, 
not a few mourn for the good and noble whose bodies were broken and 
their lives poured out that others might have life and have it more abun- 
dantly. Somehow their lives were shed into yours. Theirs was death; 
yours, the victory. Nor would the dead have me silent of that larger 
number who have poured the service of their best years into your life, a 
vessel sanctified to receive the most costly wine of the ages to be offered 
all unimpaired, not one drop spilled, to the Master of Life whence it came. 

Enough has been said of the past. We are now at the parting of the 
ways; whether it is better to go or to stay, we do not know. In the name 
of the State and of the University — Godspeed! 

President Baker. — My gratitude for the generous words spoken here 
today is deep. But I feel that they are a tribute not to the Leader alone 
but to the bravery of the Regiment — the professors and instructors, who, 
together with the students, constitute the University. This should have 
been called the record of twenty-two years of the University. In this 
occasion center the memories of a period of our history. As I think of the 
human factors that are and have been and will be a part of it all, no wonder 
if I experience something akin to a big emotion. 

Many things that it might be proper to say here, I have already 
expressed. Let me add that I have great faith in my successor, great hope 
for the future of the University, strong belief in the rapid development of 
Colorado, and in the University and the other institutions of learning as 
factors in that development. 

It is related that a certain good old farmer in the busy season felt 
he could not spare the time for daily grace at meals and was accustomed 
to invoke a wholesale blessing on all the articles of food collectively and 
individually. I do not wish to seem trivial, but the smile and the tear 
are curiously related. I have not time even to enumerate the many grounds 
of gratitude, much less to dwell upon them. And so I say God bless the 
students in their aim at greater worth and service; the teachers in their 
sacrifice, devotion, and ideal purpose; the people of this college town who 
have contributed so much in effort and good will, and so many noteworthy 
gifts; the people of Colorado in their progressive efforts to develop here 
a civilization rich in all that makes for human welfare; and their repre- 
sentatives, the Regents, who have shown a deep sense of their responsi- 




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bilities as the agents of a great people in fostering one of their ideal 
interests. 

January first my formal relations with the University of Colorado end. 
The Regents have seen fit to give me the title of President-Emeritus, and 
I regard it the highest honor. I hope it means that as a citizen I may be 
permitted sometimes to serve the University. I recall a touching story of 
an aged professor who was about to retire from his life work. The question 
arose among his colleagues whether giving him the title of Emeritus would 
in any way embarrass the department. Finally the professor, who was 
present at the friendly discussion but had kept silent, took a cup from the 
table, and carefully filled it with water to the brim — no room for another 
drop; he then delicately placed an olive leaf on the water's surface and the 
cup did not overflow. The argument of the mute symbol was effective and 
was greeted with generous acclaim. 



CONCERNING PRESIDENT BAKERS SERVICE AND 
RESIGNATION 

[Of many editorials, letters, and telegrams, excerpts from a few 
only are given here. These are typical of the many.] 

UNIVERSITIES AND SCHOOLS 

President Edmund J. James, University of Illinois. — While you are 
celebrating President Baker's service to the University of Colorado and to the 
State of Colorado, permit me to add that you may very well stress also his 
services to the Nation as well. Dr. Baker has been one of the real forces 
in American higher education during the last fifteen years, and the Univer- 
sity of Colorado and the State of Colorado are to be congratulated upon 
having found such a man and upon having given him an opportunity to do 
the great work he has accomplished. 

President Harry Pratt Judson, University of Chicago. — I wish to express, 
on behalf of the University of Chicago, high appreciation of the service 
rendered by President Baker not merely to Colorado, but also to the cause of 
education throughout the United States. 

President Charles F. Thwing, Western Reserve University. — I wish I 
could have come to the great service in honor of President Baker. However 
great that commemoration was, it could give no intimation of the worth of 
his work. He has been the President of the University of Colorado, but he 
also has served the nation and the world. I use the past tense, but I also 
want to use the future. He is still going to do lasting and large things. 

President W. O. Thompson, Ohio State University. — I congratulate Presi- 
dent Baker and the University also upon these twenty years that are now 
past. They have been years of struggle and constructive service, and mean- 
time Dr. Baker has filled a place in the cause of higher education clearly 
conceded to him by all his contemporaries in the work. I hope the plans 
for his future are such as may be agreeable and comfortable to him and that 
he may find the next decade fruitful in contributing the results of his 
experience in some permanent form to the cause of education. 

President W. H. P. Faunce, Brown University. — President Baker's great 
service to the State of Colorado all of us in the East recognize, and we know 
that his influence has extended far outside that State and permeated all our 
educational system. 

Chancellor Samuel Black McCormick, University of Pittsburgh. — I take 
advantage of this opportunity to congratulate President Baker upon the 
eminent and worthy service which he has rendered to the cause of education 
in the State of Colorado and in the Nation. It is altogether fitting that this 




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service should have its due recognition on the part of President Baker's 
associates. 

President George C. Chase, Bates College. — We are proud of our distin- 
guished graduate and of his services to education in our country. 

President James A. MacLean, University of Manitoba. — It is just this 
sort of thing (this recognition of service) that makes me resolve never to 
despair of the Republic even in little things, never to despair of justice, nor 
of plain dealing, nor of good teachers nor good teaching, nor any of the 
great things he has believed in. The kind of completeness in which he has 
builded himself and his life leaves nothing specific that his friends may 
wish for him at this time, but if there is in him any unsatisfied desire of 
the slighter sort, whether for good books or Italian skies, or conversation 
merry or philosophical, I hope that it may be speedly and easily gratified. 

Remember me kindly to Mrs. Baker and tell her that I do not forget that 
her official connection with the University of Colorado has been contempor- 
aneous and coequal with his own. 

Chancellor Elmer B. Brown, New York University. — Let me add my 
heartiest felicitations to those with which President Baker was undoubtedly 
deluged on this interesting occasion. 

President Robert J. Aley, University of Maine. — I want to congratulate 
President Baker upon the fine thing the faculty and regents have done for 
him in commemoration of his long service to the University and State. 

President C. A. Duniway, University of Wyoming. — President Baker 
has done a great constructive work which is, I am sure, appreciated by the 
thoughtful people in Colorado. It is a gratification to know that he is going 
to keep busy in public service, even when on the retired list. 

President E. B. Craighead, University of Montana. — President Baker has 
done a great and good work for the University of Colorado and I am glad 
to know that the Regents and Faculties are showing some appreciation of 
his services. I am happy to join with those who wish him all good things, 
who congratulate him on his splendid service both for Colorado and for 
the Nation, and who wish him yet many years of happiness and service. 

President Z. X. Snyder, State Teachers' College of Colorado.— The Presi- 
dent of the State Teachers' College wishes to express his regrets and the 
regrets of the institution on the retirement of President Baker. I congratu- 
late the State that it has had in it so prominent a man at the head of 
educational matters as Dr. Baker. His ideals as a citizen, as an educator, 
and as a man have always been high, inspiring and stimulating. He has 
our best wishes; so has the University of Colorado. 

President Nicholas Murray Butler, Columbia University. — I am delighted 
to have confirmed the newspaper reports in regard to the selection of Farrand 



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as President Baker's successor. In bringing this about he has done every- 
thing in his power to insure the continuance of the high and advancing 
standards and policies that have marked his administration. 

President David R. Boyd, University of New Mexico. — I have known 
President Baker during the entire time of his connection with the Univer- 
sity of Colorado, and have learned to place a very high estimate on his 
ability and service, not only to the Institution over which he has presided, 
but to education in general. He has been wise, very resourceful and 
thoroughly and earnestly devoted to the high ideals that he has, of life 
conduct and work. 

Regis Chauvenet, President-Emeritus, Colorado State School of Mines. — 
If it be true that "Men, high minded men," constitute a state; if the real 
foundations of a community are those that regard man's higher needs rather 
than his material prosperity; then are those who now extend their greetings 
more than justified in saying to President Baker: "Well done." 

Livingston Farrand, Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University. — 
I have just learned this morning of the meeting to be held this afternoon to 
commemorate the service of President Baker to the University and to the 
State of Colorado. It is a source of keen regret to me that I am unable to 
be present and testify not only to my admiration for the man, but also to 
what he has meant for education in the country at large. Will you not 
extend to him my heartiest congratulations on the completion of twenty-two 
years of eminent service and express my earnest hope that he may enjoy 
a long life and continued usefulness not only to the State, but to the 
University. 

Paul H. Hanus, Professor of Education, Harvard University. — When 
President Baker took charge of the University its reputation had scarcely 
travelled beyond the borders of the State. Through his energetic activity 
in the field of Education throughout the country, through his wise choice 
of able professors, through his aggressive but careful educational policy, he 
has made the University widely known as a substantial and useful member of 
the great group of American state universities. 

Milton C. Whitaker, Professor of Chemistry, Columbia University. — I am 
very sorry indeed to see President Baker leave the University because it will 
be exceedingly difficult to maintain the successful standards which he has 
established and to continue development at the pace which he has set. 

Edward S. Parsons, Dean of the Department of Arts and Sciences, Colo- 
rado College. — It is a great work President Baker has done in bringing the 
University from the position it occupied in 1892 to that it holds now, with 
its great group of students, its strong faculty, its large service to the State. 
I have known some of the problems he has had to meet during these years 




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and he has shown great purpose and perseverance and tact and wisdom 
in handling them. 

Colorado school matters will hardly seem the same without his active 
leadership in them. But we are not to lose him altogether, I understand. 
His training and experience will find many places where he can help in 
our State, which still greatly needs wise leadership. 

Ammi Bradford Hyde, Lecturer on Philology and Linguistics, University 
of Denver. — President Baker's career has been one of steady advance since 
I met him at our high school. He has laid me under obligations, personal 
and professional, which I hold in lively remembrance. 

Nevin M. Fenneman, Professor of Geology, University of Cincinnati. — 
Since leaving Colorado I have thought much of what President Baker's long 
administration means to the University and to the State. I flatter myself 
that I can see far enough through the necessities, complications and annoy- 
ances of administration to get at the fundamental idealism which has been at 
the basis of his character and work. It is a satisfaction to see such qualities 
surviving the rough experiences of public life and gaining strength (so I 
may hope) with advancing years. I remember with great pleasure our too 
limited personal acquaintance. Companionship with men of ideals is not so 
plenty that one can afford to forget even the little. I wish him many years 
of service to the causes for which he lives. 

Aaron Gove, former Superintendent, Denver (Colorado) Schools. — In 
these times of stress his persistence, his reticence, and his never wavering 
conduct in abstaining from whatever bordered or smacked of dishonor, an 
integrity crystalized and unwarped and more, far more than all, his loyalty 
to a friend are notable traits for me to realize. He has demonstrated that 
the qualities that make men gush and compliment and praise and with words 
fill the hearer with temporary pleasure not enduring or valuable are quite 
unnecessary to the successful man. 

James H. Van Sickle, Superintendent, Springfield (Massachusetts) 
Schools. — I wish also to congratulate President Baker on the great service 
he has rendered the State of Colorado and the hundreds there and elsewhere 
who hold the diploma which has his signature. I allow no one of them to 
surpass me in appreciation of this service. I appreciate even better than 
some of the alumni that wider service to the educational interests of the 
country as a whole which he has rendered and which I hope he will have 
health and strength to continue for many years. 

C. E. Chadsey, Superintendent, Detroit (Michigan) Public Schools. — I 
have learned with great personal regret through the press that President 
Baker is about to retire from his work at the University of Colorado. I say 
that I learn this with regret not on his account, but on account of the 
University and the educational interests of Colorado. So many people have 
expressed so much better than I can his wonderful services that I shall not 



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attempt to add to the tribute. I wish to assure him of my personal esteem 
and affection and to tell him, as I never have before, of the inspiration he has 
been to me during the years that we have worked together. I feel very sure 
that the increased leisure which will now be his will enable him to render 
even more valuable service to education. 

Mrs. Mary C. C. Bradford, State Superintendent of Public Instruction. — 
This Commonwealth will always remain the debtor of President James H. 
Baker for the educational standards he has maintained and the personal 
sanctions given by him to all things that make for strength and power and 
beauty in the life of a community. May I add to this that Mrs. Baker's 
influence will long remain as an abiding element in the creation of a type 
of civilization destined to become the achievement of Colorado citizenship. 

J. F. Keating, Superintendent, Pueblo (Colorado) City Schools, District 
No. 20. — It would give me great pleasure to participate in the commemoration 
of President Baker's long, honorable, and efficient service in the cause of 
education in our State and Nation. May his voice long continue to be heard 
in our educational councils. 

Frank D. Slutz, Superintendent, Pueblo (Colorado) City Schools, Dis- 
trict No. 1. — I take this opportunity of congratulating President Baker upon 
his record and upon his eminent success. 

H. S. Phillips, President, Denver Teachers' Club. — Allow me to express 
my admiration for Dr. Baker and for his labors in behalf of education in 
Colorado. I am sure he will be the same giant for many years to come, for 
all that is sane and worthy, as he has been in the past. We are not to lose 
him, but to gain by his greater freedom from the petty but strength-absorbing 
cares of administration. 

ALUMNI 

The Chicago Alumni Club of the University of Colorado. — Whereas, 
The Chicago Alumni Club of the University of Colorado has learned with 
deep regret of the proposed withdrawal from the leadership of the University 
of Colorado of its distinguished and beloved President, James Hutchins 
Baker; and, 

Whereas, The Chicago Alumni Club desires at this time to give expres- 
sion of its loyality to the University, its appreciation of the services of its 
revered President, and its good wishes for his future achievements; 

Now Therefore, Be It Resolved, By the said Chicago Alumni Club in 
meeting assembled, that we take this means of reaffirming our loyalty to the 
University of Colorado, and to its President who is relinquishing active 
direction of the affairs of the Institution; and, 

Be It Further Resolved, That copies of these resolutions be presented to 
the Secretary of the University of Colorado Alumni Association, to the 
Board of Regents, and to President James H. Baker with our heartiest greet- 
ings of the season to President and Mrs. Baker. 




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The Kansas City Alumni of the University of Colorado. — The Kansas 
City Alumni of the University of Colorado, wish to express their appreciation 
of President Baker and the work he has done for the University. 

Dr. Baker will be remembered as a hard worker and a loyal supporter 
of the University; as a deep thinker and forceful speaker; and as a man 
worthy of the high position he has held. Colorado will seek far to find a 
man who will advance her University as Dr. Baker has done. 

It is with regret that we learn of his resignation as president, and our 
best wishes will go with him always. 

The Schenectady-Pittsfield Colorado Alumni Club. — The Schenectady- 
Pittsfield Colorado Alumni Club regrets that the University is to lose Dr. 
Baker. At the same time, the fact must be recognized that the duties of the 
position are arduous and growing more so, and that twenty-two years of 
faithful service entitle the President to a well-earned retirement. We trust 
that the University may still have available his counsel in time of need. We 
unite with other loyal alumni in wishing Dr. Baker many years of usefulness 
and enjoyment. 

Weld County Alumni Association of the University of Colorado. — 
Whereas, There has been announced the resignation of Dr. James H. Baker 
from the presidency of the University of Colorado, and whereas we wish to 
in some way betoken the obligation we feel for the great good he has rendered 
for the past twenty-two years in that position; 

Resolved, That this Association express to President Baker and to all 
the alumni and citizens of Colorado, that we are deeply sensible of the great 
service he has rendered to the University, to the State, and to the cause of 
education in general. The work of President Baker has created a University 
that is represented by the steadily increasing buildings and equipment, and 
another that is represented by the ideals of the men and women who hold its 
diploma. 

His high scholastic ability, his untiring devotion to the institution's 
every interest, his unswerving adherence to integrity and manhood, have 
achieved the great growth and high rank of the University of Colorado in 
the educational world, and have been an incentive and example to the highest 
effort and ideals among the young men and women of this State. 

In so giving voice to our gratitude for his past work, we trust his con- 
nection with the University of Colorado will not be entirely severed, and 
we wish for him the realization of his best hopes in whatever his new 
activity may be. 

Pueblo Alumni Association. — We greet President Baker and appreciate 
his splendid unselfish service. 

University of Colorado Club of Denver. — Whereas, The University of 
Colorado Club of Denver, realizing the excellence of the work done by 
President James H. Baker, and appreciating his efforts and success in the 



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upbuilding of the Institution to its present enviable position in educational 
circles of this country; and, 

Whekeas, This Club valuing these services, not only to the University, 
but also to the people of the State of Colorado — and the country at large, 
and recognizing also the high standard set by President Baker as a man 
and educator; and, 

Whereas, We, as alumni and former students of the University, having 
been personally benefited and having profited by our association with Presi- 
dent Baker, deem it a pleasure and a privilege to express at this time our 
sincere gratitude and appreciation for his influence which will continue as an 
inspiration throughout our lives; 

Therefore, Be It Resolved, By the University of Colorado Club of Denver, 
in regular meeting assembled, that we hereby extend to President Baker our 
sincerest wishes for a pleasant and prosperous future. 

The University of Colorado Alumnae Club of Denver. — The U. of C. 
Alumnae Club of Denver deeply regrets President Baker's decision to sever 
his connection with the University. We feel that the Institution and our- 
selves are suffering an irreparable loss; that no one could have furthered 
the interests of the University more rapidly or more substantially than 
President and Mrs. Baker have done; and that we shall miss them as 
personal friends when we return now and then to the University life. That 
prosperity and peace attend them is our earnest and affectionate wish. 

Wilson M. Shafer, 1898, Superintendent, Cripple Creek (Colorado) 
Schools. — Many of us will continue to feel a personal interest and pride in 
the future activities of Dr. Baker and will look to him, as in the past, as 
our sanest and safest counselor in educational matters. May I add that some 
of us will cherish the hope that the personal touch we have enjoyed in the 
past shall continue. 

Omar E. Garwood, 1901, 1903. — It seemed to me that his whole ambition 
in life was to make a success, not for himself, but for the institution whose 
destinies were in his hands. Dr. Baker is really a great man, and I con- 
sider it perhaps the greatest privilege of my life to have labored intimately 
with him during the years when I needed his sort of discipline. He imbued 
me so strongly with his own devoted University spirit that he inspired my 
energies to work almost automatically in devising ways and means to help 
him. In the ordinary affairs of life we seldom see such devotion to an ideal 
as has been witnessed by President Baker's sacrifices for the University 
since he became its executive head. During all the years that he has been at 
Boulder, his personal thoughts and wishes have with singular regularity 
been made secondary to those of the University, its faculty and students. 
Such devotion cannot fail to bring success in any line of human endeavor 
and here lies the big lesson in Dr. Baker's life for all of us. 

John M. Downen, 1899, Superintendent, George W. Clayton College. — Dr. 
Baker is in my opinion one of the really large figures in American education 




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today. His intellect, high ideals, sagacity, and force of will, have been an 
inspiration to me during the seventeen years I have known him. 

George S. Darley, 189S. — President James H. Baker — The great man of 
Colorado's greatest educational institution; whose untiring efforts in behalf 
of our Alma Mater put her in the front ranks. 

I for one well remember his advent among us in the year 1891. He was 
tall and commanding, and has grown taller ever since, and more than ever 
commands the respect and confidence of the students of the University and 
the citizens of Colorado. 

As one of the "old boys"' I have the highest estimate of President Baker 
as a man and educator; and one who was far more interested in us than we 
sometimes gave him credit. His work and his accomplishments speak for 
him; and there is a monument in the hearts and minds of hundreds of 
students of the University of Colorado who have gone out into the walks 
of life to be a credit to the University whence they came. 

Conrad Bluhm, 1895. — It is well the living appreciate the service 
rendered. Yet the full face value of what he has done for the great University 
will be known only when he shall have passed from the seat of struggle. 

Albert Dakan, 1897, 1899. — When I contemplate the obstacles overcome 
by Doctor Baker in building the institutions to his credit in Colorado, my 
ideal of the Pilgrim strength is quite fulfilled in this descendant, for, was 
he not born and reared and fitted on that coast? When he was "outfitted," 
back there, in the middle seventies, I fancy the Spirit of the Fathers looked 
upon him in stern admiration and breathed the command, "Westward, For- 
ward, March" — and that, with high purpose and undaunted tread, he marched 
to the real West, into its very midst, where with ideals lofty enough to see 
the good in the elemental characters around him and with the power to 
correlate that portion of those characters, he made unselfish use of them in 
successfully building great institutions of learning. And these institutions 
shall not partake of the nature of monuments, but of temples, where youth 
may be imbued ever anew with the Spirit of the Fathers, dedicated to the 
conquest of selfishness and to a cheerful realization of Christian citizenship. 

Fred G. Persons, 1905, 1911, Professor of Physics, Colorado Agricultural 
College. — We, of the University alumni, know what President Baker has done 
in the upbuilding of our Institution and the individual stimulus which we 
have received from him as its head. To us it will not seem quite like "home" 
when we are back to visit our Alma Mater and find another in his place. 

John R. Wolff, 1899, 1900. — The splendid work which Dr. Baker has done 
in building up a great university in the Rocky Mountain Region will be more 
fully appreciated by the alumni, as well as by the citizens of Colorado, as 
time goes on. 

Alice Storms, 1908. — But it is not only the returning alumni who will 
miss President Baker — the University is losing, officially, one whose interest 



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has been so vital as to carry everything before it to success. That the loss 
may be only official and that the world may treat him in proportion to his 
good works is the wish of all alumni and friends of the University. 

Gilbert W. States, 1904. — Dr. Baker's services have been priceless. Every 
year since graduating I have looked forward with eagerness to his splendid 
address to the graduates and the inspiration to be found therein. May he 
find happiness, prosperity, and contentment in his future work. 

Alwyn C. Smith, 1894, 1901. — As an alumnus I wish to express my regret 
in the loss of President Baker's leadership for the University. I trust that 
his resignation does not mean the loss of his influence for the University 
nor his retirement from service, but simply the diverting of his activities to 
new and wider fields of usefulness and greater storehouses of happiness. 

Chester E. Smedley, 1899, 1900. — The pride in our "Prexy" forms no 
small part of the college pride of every alumnus or student who has attended 
the University of Colorado during the past quarter century. No college 
president ever inspired or held a deeper loyalty and respect of his student 
body. 

Frederick W. Doolittle, 1907, 1911. — The recipient of three degrees from 
the University of Colorado, I feel myself peculiarly indebted to the man 
whose devotion for more than twenty years to my Alma Mater has rendered 
her such worthy service. I hope that, though he is now withdrawing from the 
more onerous of his labors, the University may still have the benefit of the 
wisdom that has brought her to her present high estate. 

Ernest Morris, 1896, 1898. — No one but the highest type of efficient and 
practical educator could have successfully guided the University during the 
difficult years of its development to its present high position. The work done 
by President Baker has firmly established higher education as a permanent 
institution in Colorado. When the future history of Colorado is written the 
name of James H. Baker will stand out as the champion of higher education, 
and as the man who has done more than any one else to firmly establish and 
develop our chief educational institution for the benefit and glory of the 
people of our State and Nation. 

PRESS AND CITIZENS 

Editorial, Rocky Mountain News (Denver), December 8, 1913. — After 
twenty-two years of excellent and profitable service to the University of 
Colorado, James H. Baker retires voluntarily from the presidency of that 
splendid institution. The retirement is a distinct loss to the University, to 
the educational status of the state and to that idealistic progress in which 
he was such a stalwart and commanding figure. For President Baker was 
more than the accomplished educator, or the able executive. He was always 
a citizen of fine proportion, striving for the advancement of the common- 




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wealth along material and uplifting lines, and a very earnest and honest 
champion of all the moralities that go to develop a better citizenship. 

His presidency of the university is a record of consistent worth, work, 
progress, and prosperity. He brought a ripe and rare talent to his executive 
labors. He kept far aloof from the small things that only breed vexations. 
He tempered his labors with an altruism that begot the respect and confidence 
of students and people. He succeeded most admirably in placing the Univer- 
sity of Colorado on a sure foundation of merit that should make the task 
of his successor comparatively easy to maintain. 

The State will be sorry to lose President Baker. Still it is good to know 
that he will not divorce himself and his valuable counsels from the University 
entirely. He promises his help at any time it may be needed and that 
is a great deal. But in his going it must be said with indisputable truth that 
the history of the University of Colorado for the two and twenty years of 
his presidency is largely his personal record — a record remarkable in suc- 
cesses, professionally and individually. 

Editorial, United Labor Bulletin (Denver), December 13, 1913. — Colo- 
rado's most noted educator is to retire from active service on January 1. For 
forty years Dr. James H. Baker, president of Colorado University, has 
been actively connected with educational institutions of the State, first 
becoming identified with the Denver High School in 1875, where he served 
as principal seventeen years and saw the attendance grow from 50 to 700 
pupils. Twenty-two years ago he was called to the head of the state 
institution at Boulder, which he has caused to become recognized as one 
of the leading state universities of the country, now having an enrollment 
of 1,300 pupils. During all these years Dr. Baker has enjoyed the fullest 
cooperation of the student body and the state regents of the University, 
and his kindly advice has assisted many young men to successful avenues 
of life. In recognition of his long and valued service, the board of regents 
bestowed the title of president-emeritus upon the doctor and voted him one 
year's salary dating from time of his retirement. This action has the 
approval of every citizen of the state. Dr. Baker is sixty-five years of age 
and will become a beneficiary under the Carnegie pension fund for 
educators. Professor Livingston Farrand of Columbia University has been 
appointed to the position. 

Editorial, Daily Herald (Boulder), December 8, 1913. — The history of 
Dr. Baker, as president of the University is a remarkable one. Coming here 
twenty-two years ago when the institution was struggling for existence, he 
brought with him a masterful insight into its needs and its possibilities 

At all times he has worked for its upbuilding and has reared, out of a 
puny institution of a few schools a University which stands among the high- 
est in the land, with departments covering almost every known branch of 
learning. His executive ability has been remarkable. In his general manage- 
ment of the entire University, he has kept an eye on every branch and on 
every detail of which it was necessary for him to be cognizant. When, several 



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years ago, for lack of state funds to keep the institution alive, it was feared 
its doors would be closed forever, it was his genius, his perspicacity, his fore- 
sight, and his resourcefulness which warded off what threatened to be a death 
blow, and, by calling on patriotic citizens, he tided it over until the state 
could again come to its rescue. His every thought for the last twenty- two 
years has been the good of the University. Whatever he did seemed to be 
done for the purpose of helping along the cause of the school of which he 
was the head. In public and in private he ever labored for the one cause. 
Broad, liberal-minded, a deep thinker and a clear and forceful speaker — 
argumentative rather than eloquent, whether he addressed the people of 
Boulder or labored with the legislators, whether he lectured from the plat- 
form or attended teachers' meetings — his main thought was to do that 
which he could by influencing others, by enlarging his own learning, by 
visiting and becoming acquainted with the affairs of other like institutions, 
and that which would always redound to the interests of this main object 
of his solicitude, the University of Colorado. Tactful he was in the extreme. 
While other state institutions had their internal dissensions, some of them 
changing heads frequently, Dr. Baker's position was always secure, because he 
made it necessary that he be kept where he was. He has always stood, not 
only for the mental advancement of the students, but also for their moral 
uplift. He has entered into student life sufficiently to endear himself to 
all who ever attended the University without breaking the barrier which 
should of necessity separate student from president. He has made a record 
of which any man can be proud. That he has been a hard worker, consistent 
and persistent, that he has had his worries, that he has overcome difficulties 
which seemed insurmountable, that he has indeed been a remarkably suc- 
cessful executive, and that he can with justice point with pride to the 
wonderful success with which the University has been crowned, is conceded 
by all. 

Editorials, Daily Camera (Boulder), September 9, 1913 and December 
8, 1913. — Dr. James H. Baker entered upon his 22nd anniversary of the 
presidency of the University of Colorado with the beginning of this semester 
on Monday. They have been notable and busy years for Dr. Baker — building 
years, the formative and constructive period of the institution. From a two 
or three-building campus it has become a campus full of buildings for many 
departments, not all the good doctor expected or reasonably hoped for, but 
serviceable, useful and doing their work. From a handful of students, 
frequently a commencement without graduates, it has become a great aggre- 
gation of colleges with 1,300 students of letters, the arts, the sciences, and 
the business of life. Two panics have occurred during his presidency, yet 
the University has each year marked increased attendance over the preceding 
year. 

With Horace Greeley's advice, "Go West, young man," ringing in his 
ears, he came to Denver in 1875 to take charge of that city's high school. 
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who were students of Baker's there, have partially told the story of his 
great work in Denver which endured seventeen years until he was called 
to the presidency of the University here. Recognized as a leader by the 
National Council of Education and the Association of State University 
Presidents, he has held the highest positions they had to offer. Long 
since, the University he had built here in the West was rated by the German 
year book as among the first eleven American universities and the first five 
state universities. He set the standard high and inflexibly adhered to his 
standard. It was not a rich man's school but a democratic institution 
based on certain rules of fitness for entry and certain rules of conduct and 
of work within the course. Whole classes were suspended or expelled, sons 
and daughters of rich and poor alike fell under the ban of his disapproval 
and had to go or were gently shoved aside, until all came to recognize 
the genius, justice and intellectual might and Tightness of the man. It 
isn't his A.M. and LL.D. that give Baker place in the educational world, 
though he has all these and more designations — it is that he set his standards 
high, well to the front though not too far forward, and that he not only 
stood there but by sheer force of moral and intellectual power rallied there 
and kept there — always in the van — those he would have about him, those 
he would have as soldiers in the crusade for higher education in the Great 
American Desert. 

Both as man and president he stands high in the esteem of every 
citizen of Boulder. His resignation when in the prime of his faculties 
reveals that keen sense of the fitness of things and high purpose of 
service to the people that have always characterized his acts. He goes 
in the fullness of his powers and at a time when he can choose, and not 
permit the politics of parties or colleges to choose his successor. He 
has named a man twenty years his junior to carry on the great work Baker 
has planned for greatness to come. He goes out of a spirit of justice 
to his family, and against the wishes of a protesting regency, but with 
the good will of every regent and all the faculty. He will be unfettered 
by responsibilities but will have time to lend to his successor by way 
of the advice due from a president-emeritus and from an architect and 
builder of the foundation to the superintendent of the work of completing 
the edifice. He will have time also to advise all departments and to 
address educational bodies and to work for methods that will secure better 
monetary consideration for the faculty. Colorado is not to lose Baker, 
though younger hands are to grasp the educational reins. 

Editorial, Colorado Alumnus, December, 1913. — He battled fearlessly 
and successfully with all sorts of obstacles, suffering pain and disappoint- 
ment many, many times, and shouldering monstrous responsibilities without 
even swerving. He has carried the welfare of the University through 
many discouraging storms for years, until now he has placed it on the 
solid rock where it shall continue to stand and grow through the ages, 
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monument to his name, the realization of the vision of a master mind. 
Having gone through twenty-two years of constant, unceasing work and 
worry, he now, at the age of sixty-five while yet a giant in mind and body, 
resigns the presidency. The present high standards and the broad national 
recognition of our Alma Mater were made possible by his rare executive 
ability and leadership, assisted by a carefully selected and faithful faculty. 
The alumni of the University, the State of Colorado, and the entire educa- 
tional world have profited much from his noble deeds, and we owe our 
President-Emeritus a great debt of gratitude. 

Editorial, Silver and Gold (Student Semi-weekly), December 11, 1913. — 
We are faced with the proposition of expressing our esteem and apprecia- 
tion to the man who has made our Alma Mater. We confess at the start — 
it is beyond our ability. The mingling of our regret at his leaving, our 
admiration for the man and our pride in his work produce in each one 
of us an emotion impossible of expression. 

"Prex!" No, the word is not spoken in any light or familiar sense. It 
has a distinct and different connotation in every college and university 
the country over, and yet is everywhere spoken with a feeling of unques- 
tioned filiation. His life has been full of the serious. His indomitable 
energy and force of character have been his most prominent characteristics 
during his whole life and have finally brought him fame and distinction. 
Anyone who has come into contact with the formal, reserved exterior of the 
man cannot help feeling the power which he possesses. 

Though his attitude toward the student body has never been one of 
intimacy, though he has chosen few close personal friends, he has com- 
manded greatest respect and admiration from all who know him. The 
sympathetic side of his nature, so seldom seen by the students in their 
casual relations with him, is attested by his inability to appear before 
the student assembly Monday. On the eve of his vacation he found it 
impossible to announce formally to his students that his work was nearly 
done, that he would give over to younger hands the machinery which he 
has so well governed. 

What President Baker has done for the University of Colorado is 
so well known that his work hardly needs reviewing. The growth of 
the institution has been remarkable in the twenty-two years that he has 
fostered it. He has given it the best that he had — his youth, his energy, 
his deepest thought — and the School has grown hand in hand with his 
fame as an educator. 

Now, while still full of vigor, personal matters demand his attention. 
He turns over to another man the results of labor and sacrifice — the 
culmination of his hopes and ambitions, the University of Colorado. Even 
at the close of his active career, he is looking optimistically to the future. 
His letter of resignation is full of hope, thoughtful of the needs of the 
School, mindful of the pitfalls which his long service has experienced, and 
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May his hope be fulfilled! May his work continue by the impetus he 
has given it; ever increasing in its standards and sphere of usefulness! 
May the past University generations ever continue to revere him and to 
feel his influence; and may those to come become imbued with his force 
and never forget that the present University of Colorado is largely the 
result of its past president — the President-Emeritus — James H. Baker! 

Bishop David H. Moore. — I extend to President Baker my hearty con- 
gratulations on his able and eminent work both in Denver and in Boulder; 
and my sincere wish that he may be permitted to achieve still greater 
things for the University and for the Centennial State. 

Arthur Henry Chamberlain, Managing Editor, Sierra Educational 
News. — It is a great pleasure for me to say that I know President Baker 
to have been one of the most successful college presidents during the last 
several decades. His work at Colorado has been decidedly constructive. 

Judge William H. Gabbert. — I am pleased to note, however, that the 
valuable services Dr. Baker has rendered during the past twenty-two years 
are appreciated, which no doubt will be expressed in a manner that will 
be gratifying. 

Senator and Mrs. John T. Joyce. — There is no reward like the love 
and respect of your fellow beings for the faithful performance of duty. 
Such is Colorado's offering, and in the light of President Baker's marvelous 
achievements she will ever revere his name. 

Edward J. Yetter, President, Denver Chamber of Commerce. — I feel 
that the University will suffer a great loss when Dr. Baker retires as its 
active head, but hope that the school will have the benefit of his guidance 
in an advisory capacity until the new president has his work well in hand. 

Joseph C. Bell, Regent, 1906-1912. — I very much regret to see President 
Baker resign, as it will make me feel like a stranger to visit Boulder and 
not meet him in command. I considered him a great man doing a great 
work. 

Thomas B. Stearns. — A record such as Dr. Baker's is one to be proud 
of, and one on which he can retire with great satisfaction. Anything well 
done and completely done is all that one can accomplish in this world, and 
he has done a great work, and has left behind him a very fitting monu- 
ment of this work. 

Charles Caverno, 1891. — In President Baker the hour and the man met 
with the usual outcome — triumphant success. Health to him and pros- 
perity to University of Colorado. 

Edwin Van Cise. — I join most cordially in the warm tribute of com- 
mendation and esteem paid to President Baker by the Board of Regents 
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of our State will unite in praise and good will. And how pleasant it must 
be to him that several thousand graduates, men and women, residing in 
Colorado and other states give him credit not only for aid in solving the 
problems of the collegiate course, but those of life as well, and more 
especially for implanting and developing in them the high ideals of service 
for which he always stood. Dr. Baker has contributed to make leaders 
of them. 

Caesar A. Roberts. — The state of Colorado owes President Baker a 
debt that ought to be recognized by an ample annuity. There, is only one 
man in about three hundred who is really executive and constructive, 
and he is one of those. His teaching place might be filled, but the con- 
struction and upbuilding cannot readily be filled by a man combining, as he 
does, in the highest degree, the two qualities. 

Henry T. Rogers. — It would indeed be a pleasure to have a part, even 
in the humble capacity of auditor and spectator, in any movement taken 
to recognize the unselfish and invaluable services President Baker has 
rendered for many years past, not only to the University, but to the cause 
of education in general, but as it is I must content myself with offering him 
my congratulations and my best wishes for his happiness and continued 
success in whatever field of labor he may enter upon. 

James Grafton Rogers. — Please convey to Dr. Baker my personal 
regards and my very genuine appreciation as a citizen of Colorado of his 
long and diligent services in behalf of our University. If his successor 
can achieve a moderate proportion of the advance that has attended Dr. 
Baker's administration, the State will be contented. 

Ursula D. Herrick, Donor of the William Porter Herrick Memorial (Stu- 
dent Loan) Fund. — It is a greater source of regret that the University will 
lose the valuable services of President Baker, but I trust that his labors in the 
future in his chosen line of work, will be crowned with the same great 
success, and be equally as valuable to the public as his past labors have 
been. 

Clyde L. King. — I want to join the number of young men who every- 
where are paying tribute to President Baker for the incentive he gave 
them for high-grade work and for the poise and outlook he helped instill 
in them. 

William MacLeod Raine. — One point has stood out both to me and 
all others with whom his decision was the last court of appeal — he was 
always fair and open minded. His mind moved in the most direct and 
candid way to what he judged to be the best thing for all. I am told that 
this is a rare virtue among the presidents of our colleges, many of whom 
have been too political in their temperaments. It is generally recognized 
that the biggest educational figure in the State has now retired from active 
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